2020 in Review
N.B: This is my annual retrospective post. It contains no special insights and is 100% skippable.
Summary
In terms
Large Gains from Small Choices
Looking at my average day, I often think that I'm lazy and wasting most of my time. Usually
Social media checks, bias and the presumption of innocence
A few weeks ago, stories started circulating about an IT consultant who would approach women on tinder and, after being
Racism as a prisoners dlimma
Imagine you live in a society that is divided between three major ethnic groups. The groups help their own members,
Why prostitution is immoral on the buy side
(TLDR: Because a significant % of prostitutes are forced/coerced into it, meaning when you sleep with a prostitute there'
Links 20/08/2020
A collection of somewhat interesting things I've read or watched recently.
* A look at how the US treats
Thoughts on cancel culture.
Let's say there's a society where people who say the wrong thing about topic X are
Avoiding obviously bad things
Draw one circle inside another. The inner circle is you. The outer circle is the world.
One of the main
Founding a tech startups is not a good way to maximize your own wellbeing
Why do people start a business? Two reasons:
* Meaning
* Money
Let's focus only on money for now.
If
Massai wife sharing
I read Barefoot over the Serengeti a while back. In it David Read writes about his childhood in africa. He